Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-01-12

sion.
 Secretary Lamar was nssrned at Ma
 con, Ca, January 5;h, to Mrs. Holt -- Millionaire Hears, will probably be the choice of California democrats tor
 United States senator.
 The republican party could make
 lar worse mistake than 10 nominate
 Lincoln and Gran, TOT 1888.
 John Roach, the great shipbuiider, is
 dying with a cancer similar 10 the ene which carried General Grant od.
 Railroad freights and fares and tax on bullion will be among the measures introduced at the present session. ' The Missouri express robbers pleaded guilty and were sentenced 70 seven and Eve years respectively ID the penisen- uary.
 General NJ. s Quay has been selected by the republicans of the Pennsylvania legislature for the posision of United States senator.
 They are engaged in New York in dis cussing the proprie,y of hanging woman who has been convicted of murder in the first degree.
 There seems to be very strong senii- uent among legislators to abolish county counts and return to the fee system for county officers.
 An Oakland, California. paper has beer sued for libel bya widow for speaking of her deceased husband as having '.sone to happier home"
 The state Of Nevada, as vel as the entre silver producing country sf the west, wlli have an able advocate and champion of the silver question in Sen ator Stewart
 Those negro soldiers cannot be blamed for failing to attack the train robbers the ether day. says the Inter Republic, be- cause they owa their support to black legs, and if they were on duty they were themselves black guards
 If the government propose to feed the Wzllapai Indiins t ought to remove thesa to Boston where baked beans and clans are cheap and where the senti- mentalIsts would net trade them out of l their raiions for tawdry articles.
 The mayor of Greenfield. Ala. pro- tects with brass knuckles the rights of bIs I constituents to gel drunk unmolesied by temperance orators. There is, it would appear, more pugiIistic organism than muscular christianity in this coun- uy.
 Among the reforms the people expect st the neat legislature is for II to abolish the ofice O. territorial superintendent of schools and commissioner of immi- grafton A very large proportion of taxpayers are of the opinion that both offices are useless expense to the ier- G;ory. |
 A Chicago paper says: The San Francisco press deplores the fact that California sena.orships can be bought About as good way of removing this impression as can be suggested IS for California to elect apoor man with brains some time when a few ten-nillionaires are bidding for the place. There is noth- ing unreasonable about the east |,
 The Star gives the following sensible advice: WIIh the opening O: the new year let ,he Arizona journals stand so- gether on the proposition of booming ! the territory, And while i, Is true. all booms are accompanied by considerable news, le, the Arizona boom be based oi 6uSilCSS, bi nuC
 The fact that both of the sta,esmen who were selected for the vice presidency by the two political parties st the last presidential election, are now gone, re calls the fac, that of all the men who have been presidential candidates on .ither side, all are dead save Fremont, Hayes, Blaine and Cleveland. Mir. Hayes $ the only surviving expresident
 Among the distinguished pallbearers | the Logan obsequies was ex-Senator Conkline, who had not been in the sen te chamber since six years ago, when le left Il under the memorable cir,um- .ances that took Senate, Plait from 1 ,uSiic life. During the funeral ceremo- lies Mr. Conklins sat bItween General Sherman and Senator Stanford of Cali onia. Alter the benedictioa, his old riends pressed forward 10 greet him at he doorway. and formed jam around x nm with extended hands IT. The largest locomotive n inc world ,l 'assed through Bismarck, Oak, recently d n route to the Cascade division of the ., 'oItheIn Pakiic road This engine has z, cen built expressly for sse by the North Ii; m Pacific on the Cascade mountains, c, nd without. coal os wa;e, weighs ninety as NO tons. She has len drive wheels. and s, i'll draw all the track will hold on the n, eePess grades We copy the above hi om an exchange. IL is. however, a ,t: listake, as larger locomotive. and. We ey elieve, iheiarges, in the world, is owned ,e y the Southern Pacific, and runs on the ehachipai mountains. Its weigh, is |, u.